Warring States Eagle

Although he agreed to negotiate a peace with the big family, the conditions for the peace cannot be relaxed.After some haggling, the Ouchi family is willing to pay the following conditions for the two parties to reach a settlement again and a two-year truce:

One is willing to send the family members of the Ouchi family captives who were captured by the Luo family last year because of the attack on the Luo family's Hakata port to the Luo family territory to reunite with these captives.This is tantamount to sending people from the Ouchi family to the Luo family.It's just that the Ouchi family is still unwilling to apologize for last year's sneak attack.Now that he can receive the benefits, Zheng Liang doesn't bother to pursue these jokes anymore.

The second is to send the two sons of Takeuchi Hisamori (Takeuchi Hisashi and Takeuchi Hisakatsu) who assassinated Masara last year, as well as the rest of Takeuchi Hisamori's family members and clansmen to the territory of the Luo family.Zhengliang's excuse for this was to treat these people as slaves to vent his anger.The poor Takeuchi Jiusheng clan was sold to the Luo family by Mori Moto.

What Mori Moto didn't know was that after Zhengliang asked these people to come over, he didn't really treat them as slaves, but reunited them with Takeuchi Hisamori, who was still a guest in Luo's cell.According to the conditions proposed by Zhengliang to rescue the Takeuchi Jiusheng clan, Takeuchi Jiusheng and his two sons will become the retainers of the Luo family from then on, and will also serve as the martial arts teacher of the Luo Academy a well-known genre within the genre).His family will also settle in the Luo family's territory.

In this way, in June of the 19th year of Tianwen ([-]), the Luo family signed a four-party peace agreement with the Ouchi family, Iki Island Hatata, and Tsushima island respectively to ensure the smooth passage of maritime trade.At the same time, the Ouchi family reconciled with the Luo family again, and confirmed a two-year peace agreement. As for whether the two parties will abide by it.That's another matter.certainly.In general, both parties will abide by it.Otherwise, the party who breaches the contract will be a dishonest person in the eyes of the rest of the big names.It will be difficult for this family to carry out diplomacy in the future.

As soon as these two agreements came out, the most enthusiastic responses were from various commercial houses and the citizens of Kitakyushu.In the past few years, Kitakyushu has experienced a lot of wars, which have had a great impact on local commerce and people's livelihood. Now that the two overlords of Kitakyushu, the Luo family and the Ouchi family have finally reconciled, they naturally It is a pleasure to hear and see.

In comparison, the Otomo family and the Ito family were a little unhappy.At the beginning, it was your family who made an agreement with us to deal with the Luo family, but now it's good.Instead, you reconciled with the Luo family first, what should we do?Moreover, Motoshi Mori sent envoys to Otomo's and Ito's homes when he temporarily rushed to support Hatata on Iki Island this time, and asked them to immediately attack the Luo family's Bungo territory at the same time, but they had just begun to mobilize the territory. When the army was in power, they received such news again, which made them not angry.

In order to appease these two powerful names, under the order of Yoshitaka Ouchi, "you will smooth out what you caused", Mao Liyuan had to go out in person and go to the two territories as envoys.Maori Yuanzuo's method of appeasing him was naturally to secretly declare to these wealthy families.This is just an act of the Ouchi family to temporarily paralyze the Luo family, once the opportunity arises.The Ouchi family will still join forces with the various daimyos to send troops to the Luo family.

Similarly, when the Niko family sent Mitsuko Yamanaka, who had just returned to Izumo at the end of last year, to the Luo family to question why they reconciled with the Ouchi family, the Luo family also used the same excuse to explain to the Niko family.Moreover, Duanmu Qingzheng, who was a hostage staying in the Nizi family, also took the opportunity to fight back against the Nizi family, bluntly saying that this time the Luo family had already fought a battle with the Ouchi family at sea (actually it was just a confrontation), fully fulfilling the alliance agreement between the two parties, and Since entering Tianwen for 19 years, Nizi's family has not made any moves against Ouchi's family.This counterattack immediately left Nizi's family speechless.

Of course, Tao Longfang of the Ouchi family reacted the most violently to the result of the reconciliation between the Ouchi family and the Luo family.In Tao Longfang's view, it was a mistake to tear up the covenant and attack the Luo family.But since the mistake has already been made, then simply make the mistake and make the mistake. We should maintain the confrontation with the Nizi family, and at the same time suspend the attack on the Beihou country and other regions, and concentrate our military power and resources to suppress the Luo family. After all, compared to the Nizi family, the Luo family The family is the greater threat to the big family.It would be another mistake to reconcile with the Luo family at this time.

It is a pity that Ouchi Yoshitaka neither listened to Tao Longfang's opinion, nor agreed to Mao Liyuan's suggestion to strengthen the penetration of Bingo and other regions when he reached a settlement agreement with the Luo family. Instead, he planned to maintain The current situation of the family.The reason why Ouchi Yoshitaka made such a decision was, on the one hand, to avoid intensifying the conflicts among the various factions in the family. On the other hand, he felt that he could force the Luo family to reconcile with him at this time, which was considered a bad breath.What's more, he is currently enjoying a few Noh performances from Kyoto with those down-and-out ministers.It's just that Ouchi Yoshitaka's reaction made many retainers in the family feel extremely disappointed.

Of course, the above-mentioned situations all happened after the negotiations in the waters near Iki Island, but now Zhengliang is facing another headache.

"How, you believe it now?" said Zhu Zining, who was a little out of breath, and his clothes were blackened by the mast.No, it's not Zhu Zining anymore, but Li Huamei.Well, when Zheng Liang heard that Zhu Zining had changed his name to Li Huamei, his mood at that time was like thousands of mud horses galloping past your face.

Unscientific, really unscientific!Zheng Liang really couldn't accept that the gentle and elegant Zhu Zining turned into what he is now, and he is also the legendary Li Huamei?

I once remembered that when Zheng Liang saw this woman for the first time, her eyes were watery, but her eyes were cold, as if she could see through everything; her fingers were slender, her skin was like creamy white, pink, as if she could wring out water ; a pair of vermilion lips, the words and smiles are sweet, and every move seems to be dancing; the long hair hangs down to the ankles, the hair is untied, and the blue hair dances with the wind, giving off a fragrance; On the ground, there are dark patterns of rusty butterflies.A head of blue silk is lightly curled up with butterfly tassels.A butterfly carved from a night pearl on the forehead.A faint light is emitted, the Emei is lightly swept away, no makeup is applied on the face, but it still cannot hide the stunning appearance, a crystal necklace around the neck makes the clavicle clearer, the white jade bracelet on the wrist sets off the snow-like skin, and a pair of gilt on the feet The golden shoes were adorned with precious stones.Her beautiful eyes flowed, like a pale butterfly that lost her breath in the dark, her expression was indifferent, like a fairy who didn't eat the fireworks in the world, a smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, ethereal, ethereal and gorgeous like fireworks.Such a charming woman, but now she has become a clean and neat short hair, over the ears and not shoulder-length; she is dressed in gorgeous black brocade clothes, and she is wearing a big pink peony on her chest with a flamboyant personality. A beautiful woman with a red satin covering one shoulder.Although there is a kind of alternative beauty.However, due to the large changes before and after, Zheng Liang couldn't accept it for a while.

What surprised Zhengliang even more.The reason Zhu Zining told her about the name change.It turned out that Zhu Zining did not grow up in his own family when he was a child, but in the family of a naval general of the Ming Dynasty named Li (it is said that he was sent to this good friend of his biological father due to some accidents in the family at that time. foster care).Therefore, under the influence of her adoptive father, she has been exposed to a lot of knowledge about navy since she was a child, and she is also very clear about how to control a navy.It may also be that such an environment has also formed her character that is gentle on the surface but persistent and even stubborn on the inside.

Not long after, Zhu Zining's biological father was old and had no heirs, so he took her home and prepared to inherit the family business.It is extremely difficult for a woman to support such a business family in such an era.But the stubbornness in Zhu Zining's heart was aroused at this time. She didn't believe that a woman could support a business family, so she devoted herself wholeheartedly to the family business.

However, with the death of his biological father, the family business, which lost the support of the official background, immediately became fat in the eyes of local bureaucrats and wealthy businessmen.And Zheng Liang appeared in front of Zhu Zining precisely at this time.After getting support from Zhengliang's forces, she barely stood her ground.

But just when she saw a glimmer of hope, her original adoptive father was also framed for colluding with Japanese pirates because he offended the powerful in the army. He was sent to jail and even about to be executed.With the help of Shitou and Wang Hai, she urgently rescued her adoptive father's family and others, but her adoptive father was eventually killed in prison.In order to swear to avenge her adoptive father, she changed her name back to the name she used to have at her adoptive father's house, which was Li Huamei.But in the process of rescuing her adoptive father, her beauty and the wealth represented behind her were all targeted by those powerful and powerful.

Under the persuasion of Wang Hai and others, in order to avoid getting into trouble, she was forced to sell the family property one by one through Wang Hai and others, and planned to invest the money in the smuggling business of Wang Hai and others.However, those who covet her beauty and wealth are still unwilling to let her go, and even intend to frame her as a party with her adoptive father (because she took in her adoptive father's family members), intending to use the same method as they used to deal with her adoptive father. persecute her.In the blink of an eye, she found that there was no place for her to gain a foothold in the big Ming country.In the end, she gritted her teeth and rushed to dismiss all the servants before these corrupt officials and rich merchants attacked, and bought the family property scattered, and used the relationship through Wang Hai and others to buy some local officials and craftsmen. He took a lucky boat that was not equipped with weapons, took his adoptive father's family members and some loyal servants with him, and went to sea to join Zhengliang.

It's just that even after boarding the ship, she found that it was not so easy to go to sea.Such a big Fuchuan sailing along the coast is easy to be discovered by patrolling sailors.Fortunately, at this time, a Jinmen Qianhu surnamed Yu in Fujian turned out to be his adoptive father's former department, and he knew that his adoptive father was framed. After receiving Zhu Zining's request for help in advance, he transferred the navy along the road to order They were able to go to sea calmly, and finally came to Zhengliang's territory.

Today, because Zheng Liang still doesn't believe that she is a good sailor, Zhu Zining, who has changed her name to Li Huamei, personally performed a mast-climbing skill for Zheng Liang (of course, Li Huamei only started to perform when they were the only two of them).To be honest, when Li Huamei climbed up the mast two or three times, and climbed the truss on the swaying mast more than ten meters high, Zheng Liang, who was watching from below, also felt a little scared, so he immediately Shouting for Li Huamei to come down quickly.Li Huamei's first sentence after landing was naturally to ask Zheng Liang if she believed her words and abilities.

"Okay, I believe it, but, what do you plan to do in the future?" Zheng Liang asked again.At this time, the occupied Iki Island Ishida County was left to the cabinet retainers who were temporarily summoned to take over together with the Hidaka family. The navy that the Luo family went out this time had already returned to Karatsu Bay, and the huge lucky boat immediately became a treasure. The most watched ship in the area.

"Hmm." Li Huamei also frowned after hearing the words, but such a beauty is intoxicating even if she frowns. Although Zheng Liang pretended to be a gentleman on the surface, he was secretly amazed.

"My adoptive father's family and clan, as well as the servants I brought and their families, will depend on you." Li Huamei's first thought was to settle the people she brought with her this time.

"I've already arranged this. On the way back, I ordered someone to return to the territory in advance to notify the Cabinet to arrange them in a settlement of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty in a town outside my city. I will send someone to follow your instructions later. They asked to build some courtyards of the Ming Dynasty for them to resettle. What about you?" Zheng Liang said immediately.Unknowingly, Zheng Liang and Li Huamei had removed the respectful titles such as 'girl' and 'son' in their conversations, and replaced them with terms like 'you' and 'I' to show their mutual familiarity.

"Me?" Li Huamei only now thought of how to arrange her own problem.

"If you don't dislike it, you might as well move to my residence, which is completely built according to the style of your original courtyard in Ningbo Mansion, which is very suitable for you to live in." Zheng Liang suggested.

"That seems to be where your wives, concubines and children live?" Li Huamei said suddenly.The words seemed to imply Zhengliang's bad intentions.

"Ah! Hehe!" Li Huamei directly pointed out his bad intentions, and Zheng Liang was a little embarrassed immediately.Yes, Zheng Liang has always had a plan to leave a pure Chinese blood in this world.And Li Huamei is the most beautiful Ming woman he has ever met. In the past, due to the distance between the two sides, Zheng Liang naturally didn't have any special ideas, but now that Li Huamei is right in front of his eyes, he naturally has to hold her by his side up.

Li Huamei also saw something from Zheng Liang's embarrassing expression at this time, so she also blushed at this time, and even turned around in embarrassment.

"That? It's decided like this. I will live in the city for the time being." Zheng Liang immediately came to the overlord to force his bow and decided on Li Huamei's arrangement. Then he felt that he should save some face for the girl, so as not to be ashamed and angry. And go, so he quickly added, "In addition, I will build a yard outside the city as soon as possible. If you get tired of living in the city, you can move to this yard." It's just when this yard will be built , only God knows.

"En!" Li Huamei, who had her back to Zheng Liang, agreed to Zheng Liang's arrangement with a mosquito-like voice.Afterwards, the atmosphere between the two suddenly became quiet.In order to break the awkward atmosphere, Zhengliang immediately continued:

"So what are your plans after you settle down? How will you arrange this ship?"

After hearing Zheng Liang's words, Li Huamei's attention was indeed diverted, and her face gradually returned to calm.She walked lightly to the side of the boat with lotus steps, looked at the bay in the distance, and said faintly:

"I want to avenge my adoptive father!"

"Ah?" Zheng Liang was almost knocked down by lightning.This place is far away from the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty is still implementing a policy of banning the sea at this time, how can she take revenge?Could it be that he was going back to the Ming Dynasty?But even so, how can she, a woman, fight against those powerful but increasingly depraved dirty officials and wealthy businessmen?

(ps: Li Huamei’s background is fabricated here, and there is a special post about her in the book review area. Generally speaking, this is a character who seems to have existed or not.) (To be continued...)